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Sunday, 12 June 2016

Yet more Fascists and Racists Declare their Love
for Israel

Pegida UK rally

When Zionists proclaim that anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism I find that
it is only necessary to point out the fact that nearly all fascist and racist
groups, many of them deeply anti-Semitic, support the Israeli state.Why do the professional racists support
Israel?Because Israel is seen as the
most racist anti-Muslim/Arab state in the world.Israel is a state where ‘death to the Arabs’
(& in the eyes of fascists Arabs and Muslims are synonymous).In Israel the Northern Islamic League has
just been banned.Mosques are regularly
stormed by the army and the worshippers batoned and tear gassed.Mosques are burnt down and the Islamic
religion is insulted (slogans like ‘Mohammad is a whore’) where fascist
organisations like Lehava campaign openly against mixed race relationships and
back that up with beatings to Arab males seen in ‘Jewish’ areas.

EDL supporters attack Birmingham PSC Campaign - with Israeli flag in one hand and giving Hitler salute with other

Israel in short is the ideal type of society that the fascist is seeking
to build. It has everything that they
could want, including extreme racist bigots in the Knesset and Cabinet. So we can go from Geert Wilders of the Dutch
Freedom Party to Christian Strache of Austria’s Freedom Party (fascists seem to
like the Freedom label and they like crushing freedom even more) to Marine Le
Pen of France’s Front Nationale.

In
Germany, the movement has merged with neo-Nazi elements, among them such figures as Karl-Heinz Statzberger,
who planned to carry out a bomb attack on a Munich synagogue in 2003.

PEGIDA
UK’s Waters admitted to a pro-Israel blogger that the inquiry ordered by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn “won’t find as much that is outwardly anti-Jewish, as
is outwardly anti-Israel,” but made clear that she thinks “it is anti-Israel
sentiment that we must confront.”

She
has called for “a new and powerful pro-Israel argument” to be made in the UK
and reportedly plans to write a book called “In Defense of Israel” following
her trip.

Wilders
is the figurehead of the “counterjihad” movement, a growing strand of the far-right which distances
itself from traditional neo-Nazism by claiming to abhor anti-Semitism and
offering vocal support for Israel.

At
PEGIDA UK’s most recent demonstration, in the northern English town of Rotherham
on Saturday, several Israeli flags were clearly on display.

Pro-Israel, anti-Muslim

Whether
the movement actually opposes anti-Semitism is questionable, as PEGIDA’s ties
to neo-Nazis in Germany attest.

A Swastika was seen at a PEGIDA UK demonstration and Nazi salutes have been observed during marches organized by
Robinson’s old outfit the English Defence League.

Anti-Semitism
and support for Israel clearly co-exist in sections of the far right. These
developments also underscore the kind of friends that Israel attracts:
proto-fascists who idolize the country for its ultra-nationalist,
highly-militarized and anti-Muslim practices.

PEDIGA
UK leader Paul Weston has visited Israel once before, in 2010, as part of a
delegation of far-right European leaders.

Adar
Primor, columnist for the Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz, described the visit as part of “the very unholy alliance between figures
on Israel’s right and extreme nationalists and even anti-Semites in Europe that
is gaining momentum in the Holy Land.”